Canadian Peace Research Association (Cpra) Biographies of Cpra Members and Speakers

CANADIAN PEACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CPRA) BIOGRAPHIES OF CPRA MEMBERS AND SPEAKERS

Anfaara, Florence

Ms. Anfaara is a PhD candidate in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies and Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at Western University. She holds a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Florence Anfaara can be reached at: [email protected].

Atkinson, Ryan

Mr. Atkinson (MA) is a PhD Candidate, University of Western Ontario, London and led the Cybersecurity and Information Warfare program at the NATO Association of Canada as research analyst and program manager. Ryan Atkinson can be reached at: [email protected].

Ball, Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Ball is an assistant professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College. She holds PhD in Rural Studies, with a focus on Sustainable Rural Communities, from the University of Guelph. Her research interests pertain broadly to women’s community based peacebuilding, Circle as pedagogy & community engagement process, community resilience, rural planning & community development, and narrative methodologies. Her three books reflect this range: Women, Development and Peacebuilding in Africa: Stories from Uganda (2019), Better Decisions Together: A Facilitation Guide for Community Engagement (2015), Doing Democracy with Circles: Engaging Communities in Public Planning (2010). Jennifer is a registered professional planner and worked for several years in rural Ontario. Jennifer Ball can be reached at: [email protected].

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Basso, Andrew

Dr. Andrew R. Basso (PhD, University of Calgary) is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Transitional Justice and the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He researches political violence, human rights, security and peace studies, and transitional justice. Dr. Basso’s current research focuses on displacement atrocities (the use of forced displacement to commit genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes) in comparative historical and contemporary perspectives; domicide (the intentional destruction of homes) across space and time; and broader issues of violence, rights, forced displacement, and justice. Andrew Basso can be reached at: [email protected].

Bayor, Isaac

Mr. Bayor is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at Western University. He holds an M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Notre Dame University. He has several years of experience working with several of the principal “peace” NGOs in West Africa. For instance, he has worked with the United Nations Development Program, the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, and CARE International.

Bousfield, Dan

Dr. Dan Bousfield is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Dan researches social movements, protest and critical political economy, with an emphasis on psychoanalysis, gender, technology, pedagogy and resistance. His current research examines the role of democracy in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) policy in Europe and the political role of ignorance in Canada-US relations. He received his PhD from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 2009. He has published articles in Settler Colonial Studies, Globalizations, the American Review of Canadian Studies, International Studies Perspectives and Sport and Society. Dan Bousfield can be reached at: [email protected].

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Buckley, Adele

Dr. Adele Buckley is a physicist, engineer and environmental scientist. She is the former Chair and Treasurer of the Canadian Pugwash Group and she leads the CPG campaign for a nuclear-weapon-free Arctic. Since 2007, she has presented this proposal in six countries. She is a member of the advisory board of Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. For the Global Issues Project, she led an expert roundtable on freshwater, one of a series on crises of sustainability. Formerly she was the founding partner and Vice President (VP), Sciex, developer of mass spectrometry systems with extensive worldwide installations; VP Technology and Research, Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement; and VP Solarchem Environmental Systems. Her wide-ranging work in environmental technology includes commercialization of new technology, verification of performance, and projects in Bangladesh and China. Adele Buckley can be reached at: [email protected].

Chater, Andrew

Dr. Andrew Chater serves as a limited-term assistant professor in the Political Science Department at Brescia University College, London. He is also a postdoctoral fellow and part of the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network, Trent University, Peterborough. Dr. Chater is a fellow at the Polar Research and Policy Initiative, London, United Kingdom. He completed his doctorate in political science at the University of Western Ontario and was previously a graduate resident at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy. His research interests include Arctic governance, geopolitics and security, as well as Canadian foreign policy. His publications have appeared in such journals as Strategic Analysis and International Journal. His first book, TITLE HERE (co-authored with Mathieu Landriault, Elana Wilson Rowe, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer) will be published by Routledge in November 2019. Andrew Chater can be reached at: [email protected].

Chung, Yerin

Ms. Chung (MA) is a recent graduate of the Political Philosophy stream at the University of Western Ontario who intends to undertake a PhD in Political Theory and Peace Research in 2022. She is interested in contemporary political philosophy in the areas of global distributive justice, historical injustice, human rights and the ethics of climate change as it pertains to issues of intergenerational justice. She has worked as a teaching assistant at The University of Western Ontario for various faculty members of Political Science. She holds a Master’s degree and a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Political Science both from The University of Western Ontario. Yerin serves as Director of Communications and Public Relations for the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA). Yerin Chung can be reached at: [email protected].

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Church, Greg

Greg Church is a second-year Fanshawe College film student who directs, writes, and acts in films. With Ben Langille, they have filmed a feature film and they have also collaborated on many short documentaries. Greg Church can be reached at: [email protected].

Cotta-Ramusino, Paolo

Mr. Cotta-Ramusino has been the Secretary-General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Nobel Peace Prize 1995) since 2002. He is also Professor Mathematical Physics at the University of Milano and senior Researcher at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Covington, Nancy

Dr. Covington is a retired family doctor, a member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada (IPPNWC) and also a member of Voice of Women. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia and she wrote and distributed a petition calling on the Government of Canada to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Nancy Covington can be reached at: [email protected].

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Daniele, John

John Daniele has over 20 years' experience working in the security and defense community in Canada and abroad. He has extensive experience developing threat hunting and detection, digital forensics analysis capabilities and investigating cybercrime. John has also led offensive red team assessments, engaged in vulnerability research and exploit development activities, and has provided related training to the Department of National Defence and other security agencies across Canada. He is an alumnus of both KPMG and EY where he served as a national practice leader in cyber forensics and most recently as vice president of cybersecurity operations for CGI. John has previously served as a civilian forensics analyst at Ontario Provincial Police (Anti-Rackets), the Ontario Ministry of Finance and as an investigator with Ontario's Correctional Investigation and Security Unit. John Daniele can be reached at: [email protected].

Davis, Karen D.

Karen D. Davis (PhD.) is a defence scientist with the Department of National Defence, Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis. As a military officer and civilian scientist she has conducted research related to gender, leadership, and culture in the Canadian military for over 25 years. She holds an MA in Sociology from McGill University, and a PhD in War Studies with specialization in women, war and society from the Royal Military College of Canada. Karen provides research oversight of a multi-phase portfolio on sexual misconduct, including projects conducting analysis of leadership, socialization and cultural dynamics which influence sex- and gender-based conduct in military context. She is also the scientific adviser for the assessment of barriers to the deployment of Canadian military women, a project contributing to Canada’s Elsie Initiative which promotes the meaningful participation of women in United Nations peacekeeping operations. Karen D. Davis can be reached at: [email protected].

Denton, Richard

Dr. Richard Denton (MD) is the Co-Chair North America International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (Nobel Peace Prize 1985) and associated with Int'l Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN winner of 2017 Nobel Peace Prize). Richard Denton can be reached at: [email protected].

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Dewar, Dale

Dale Dewar (MD) Rural family physician in Saskatchewan, life-long pacifist and, since mid 1970's environmentalist and anti-nuclear power campaigner. Former Executive Director of Physicians for Global Survival, Former Clerk of Canadian Yearly Meeting (Quakers), Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, U of Sask. Dale Dewar can be reached at: [email protected].

Doak-Gebauer, Charlene

Charlene Doak-Gebauer has developed a theory of digital supervision for child protection which is included in her book Digital Sexual Victims: True Cases. The book was nominated for an award by International Educators. Her forthcoming book, The Internet: Are Children in Charge? will be published in 2019. She is the Founder and Chair of the Canadian charity Child Pornography Hurts. Her studies began at the University of New Brunswick where she obtained her Bachelor of Education (Business). She studied Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario where she earned the equivalent of a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours). She was accepted to the University of Toronto to complete her Honours Business Specialist qualification. She has studied several network management courses and managed computer networks, the largest of which had 250 computer stations. Charlene is a qualified secondary school educator and a Registered Holistic Nutritionist. Charlene Doak-Gebauer can be reached at: [email protected].

Donais, Timothy

Dr. Timothy Donais is the Director of the Masters in International Policy (MIPP) program, Associate Director of the PhD Program in Global Governance, and Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He also serves as the Chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Association of Canada (PACS-Can). Prior to joining Laurier and the BSIA, he taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor, and was a post-doctoral fellow at York University’s Centre for International and Security Studies. Tim’s primary research interests lie in the area of post-conflict peacebuilding, with a particular focus on questions of ownership and inclusivity in peace processes. He also has an ongoing interest in questions of security sector reform, and has worked closely with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), one of the world’s leading research centres on security sector reform. Tim is the author of Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: Post-Conflict Consensus-Building (Routledge, 2012), The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post- Dayton Bosnia (Routledge, 2006) and the editor of Local Ownership and Security Sector Reform (Lit Verlag, 2008). Timothy Donais can be reached at: [email protected].

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Dorn, A. Walter

Dr. Walter Dorn is Professor of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College and at the Royal Military College, Kingston. A scientist by training (PhD Chemistry, University of Toronto), his doctoral research was on chemical sensing for arms control. He assisted with the negotiation, ratification and implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. His interests are broad covering international and human security, especially peace operations and the United Nations (UN). Professor Dorn is the author of Air Power in UN Operations: Wings for Peace (Ashgate, 2014); Keeping Watch: Monitoring, Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations (United Nations University Press, 2011) and the editor of World Order for a New Millennium: Political, Cultural and Spiritual Approaches to Building Peace (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 1999). He has extensive experience in UN field missions. He served as a district electoral officer with the UN Mission in East Timor in 1999; in Ethiopia on a UNDP project; and at UN headquarters as a Training Adviser with the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). He was on the UN’s Panel of Experts on Technology and Innovation in UN Peacekeeping in 2014. He served as the Innovation and Protection Technology Expert within the UN’s Department of Field Support in 2017- 18, providing advice to improve UN missions in the Middle East and Africa including Lebanon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mali. He has served as the UN Representative of Science for Peace, a Canadian NGO since 1983. He is the President of the World Federalist’s Association, Ottawa and the Past Chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group. Previously he was a Senior Research Fellow at Cornell University; a consultant to Yale University; a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Monitoring Centre (1999); an adviser to the Federation of American Scientist’s Biological Weapons Control expert group; a Research Fellow with the University of Toronto’s International Relations, and Peace and Conflict Studies programs; and the Physical Science Don at the University of Toronto’s Trinity College. A. Walter Dorn can be reached at: [email protected] and [email protected].

Dworkind, Michael

Dr. Michael Dworkind received his Medical Degree in 1974 from the McGill Medical School. He was senior academic staff at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) and the Herzl Family Practice Centre and the Director of the Palliative care training program for 30 years, and also recently retired from his position as Associate Professor of Family Medicine at McGill Medical School. He is a fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and was the Associate Director of the McGill Cancer Prevention Unit leading the smoking cessation program. He is the Medical Director of Santé Cannabis, the leading education and resource center for the use of medical cannabis in Quebec. Dr Dworkind is also a Board Member of Physicians for Global Survival (PGS) and its past president. PGS is the Canadian affiliate of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Dworkind founded the original Quebec chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility Canada in 1982. He is a member of Nuclear Waste Watch; the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Physicians for Social Responsibility (United States), the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. He also participates in Voice of Women for Peace (Canada). Michael Dworkind can be reached at: [email protected].

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Edgar, Alistair

Dr. Alistair Edgar is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is an editor of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations (Brill/Nijhoff) and series co-editor for the ACUNS Series on the United Nations (Edward Elgar Publishers). He served as Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) 2003-2008 and 2010-2018. Alistair Edgar can be reached at: [email protected].

Eickmeier, Dennis

Mr. Eickmeier is a retired college teacher of computer science and physics who has researched nuclear energy since the 1970’s Three Mile Island disaster. He is a former computer software instructor at Georgian College. He studied Cosmology (Physics) at UCLA Berkeley. He also studied at the University of Arizona. Dennis Eickmeier can be reached at: [email protected].

Ewert, Lowell

Lowell Ewert earned both his Juris Doctor (JD) and Masters of Law, and worked in many locations including Lebanon before coming to Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Canada. His areas of expertise focus on human rights, law and peace, international development, and civil society. Lowell previously served as Director of the Peace and Conflict Studies program from 1997-2017, and through his experiences has seen the importance of law and peace working together and uses this understanding to engage with students in discussions on how everyone can contribute to creating peace. He has lived and worked in Lebanon, Jordan, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Kazakhstan, and supervised or consulted on development projects in a number of other countries. Lowell Ewert can be reached at: [email protected].

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Genger, Peter

Peter Genger is a scholar and practitioner in Peace and Conflict Resolution and inter-cultural dialogue. He holds an MEd in Inter- religious Dialogue (Boston College), an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) (University of Manitoba) and he is a PACS PhD Candidate at the same university. His areas of research include Indigenous Peacemaking; mainstreaming the African and Indigenous Peacemaking Approaches (AIPA); critical Indigenous research, decolonization, indigenous knowledge and pedagogy; conflict transformation, restorative justice, Inter-cultural dialogue; and world religions in search of community and peace. Peter Genger can be reached at: [email protected].

Granoff, Jonathan

Jonathan Granoff is an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal and ethical dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address international security and the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including: Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Fortune Forum, Jane Goodall Institute, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, and Middle Powers Initiative. He is a recipient of the Rutgers University School of Law’s Arthur E. Armitage Distinguished Alumni Award and a 2014 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is the Senior Advisor to the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates and its Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador for Peace, Security and Nuclear Disarmament of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, former Adjunct Professor of International Law at Widener University School of Law, and Chair of the Task Force on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Senior Advisor to the Committee on National Security of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Gave Birth to a Nation and a prolific author. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on numerous radio and television programs, and has presented expert testimony to the Parliaments of Canada and the United Kingdom as well as the US Congress and the United Nations. Mr. Granoff earned his BA (cum laude) from Vassar College and his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law.

Grant, David

David Grant lives on a family farm abutting the land that NWMO bought in South Bruce. He is part of Protect South Bruce - No DGR and actively trying to chase them from building on some of Ontario’s prime agricultural land. David Grant can be reached at: [email protected].

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Greer, Sandy

Dr. Sandy Greer has a PhD from the University of Toronto (OISE) whose interdisciplinary knowledge includes journalism; media literacy; cross-cultural healing; spiritual psychology; and ecological literacy. As an oral intervenor during the public hearings surrounding the proposed Ontario Power Generation plan to construct a Deep Geologic Repository (DGR), she focused on media and ecological literacies to illustrate how media is constructed with flaws and limitations, and how pervasive unconscious biases affect perspectives. Dr. Greer has examined the regulations of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), and contributed to supporting “Protect Our Waterways - No Nuclear Waste,” a grassroots advocacy group in the Municipality of South Bruce. She intervened at the public hearings for the decommissioning of the Douglas Point Waste Facility in 2020, and continues to participate in the federal review processes surrounding Radioactive Waste Management policy-making. Sandy is also a North American-based documentary filmmaker. Sandy Greer can be reached at [email protected].

Hrynkow, Christopher

Dr. Christopher Hrynkow (PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba), ThD (Christian Ethics, University of Toronto) is an Associate Professor in Religion and Culture at and Department Head and Graduate Chair in Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. He has published 28 peer-reviewed journal articles and 12 peer- reviewed book chapters. He teaches courses in religious studies, Catholic studies, and critical perspectives on social justice and the common good. Hrynkow also teaches the university's inaugural section of Introduction to Peace Studies as part of a collaborative plan to build the first full-fledged Peace Studies program in Saskatchewan. From January 2019 to July 2019, he served as Patrick and Barbara Keenan Visiting Chair in Religious Education at the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto. Hrynkow is the Vice President of the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA) and a graduate student in Education (University of Bath) and Social Justice and Community Action (University of Edinburgh). Christopher Hrynkow can be reached at: [email protected].

Knight, W. Andy

W. Andy Knight is Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Alberta and past Chair of the Department. He is former Director of the Institute of International Relations, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago. He is currently co-editor in Chief of African Security journal and of International Journal. A former co-editor of Global Governance journal and Vice Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Knight has served as Governor of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and is A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent book is the award winning, Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gendered Approach, with Tanya Narozhna (University of Toronto Press, 2016). His recent publications address issues of UN Reform, global health governance, global health security, piracy in the Horn of Africa, and the vulnerabilities and resiliency of small states. Andy W. Knight can be reached at: [email protected].

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Lai, Ingrid

Ingrid Lai (MSc) has been a defence scientist at the Department of National Defence, Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis, for a year and a half. Her current work is primarily on workforce modelling for Canadian Armed Forces occupations. Prior to this, she completed an MSc and BSc in Physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Ingrid Lai can be reached at:

Langille, Ben

Ben Langille is a second-year Fanshawe College film student who directs, writes, and acts in films. With Greg Church, they have filmed a feature film and they have also collaborated on many short documentaries. Ben Langille can be reached at: [email protected].

Langille, Genevieve

Genevieve Langille is a 18 year old student and a co-organizer of the London, Ontario protests demanding action on the climate crisis, which had thousands of attendees before the pandemic. For leading these protests, she has been featured on the front page of the London Free Press, interviewed by CTV, Rogers News, the Western Gazette, CBC radio and numerous other news media. Additionally, she has spoken about anthropogenic climate change on panels at Wolf Performance Hall, the Distinguished Speaker 2020 Department of Geography and Environment series, the Hyland Cinema and town halls. She aspires to study international relations and is entering university next year. Genevieve Langille can be reached at: [email protected].

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Langille, H. Peter

Dr. H. Peter Langille specializes in peace and conflict studies, UN peace operations, conflict resolution, and the analysis of defence and security policy. His PhD in Peace Studies is from the University of Bradford under the supervision of Professor Paul Rogers (1999). His MA in Conflict Analysis is from the Norman Paterson School of International Relations, Carleton University. His MA essay was published by the University of Toronto press as Changing the Guard: Canada’s Defence In a World In Transition (1990). He also earned a Graduate Diploma in Peace Research from the University of Oslo. Near the conclusion of the Cold War, he initiated discussions on revising NATO and Warsaw Pact military doctrine and deployments to a more defensive orientation and after the Cold war ended, he led the efforts to convert Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Cornwallis into a Canadian Multinational Peacekeeping Training Centre, subsequently developed as the Lester B. Pearson Peacekeeping Training Centre. He co-authored the original reports on the Centre and in 1994-95 he was in office of primary responsibility and core working group of another study, Towards a Rapid Reaction Capability for the United Nations (Government of Canada, 1995). Langille's sole-authored book, Bridging the Commitment Capacity Gap (2016) develops the original concept, case, model, and plans for a United Nations Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS). The book undergirds a wider initiative supported by Canada’s NDP and Green parties; the United Kingdom's Labour party; and 30 members of the U.S. Congress (House Res 213). He has also written Improving United Nations Rapid Deployment Capacity (International Peace Institute, 2014) and expanded the UNEPS proposal in a World Federalist's Movement – Canada (WFM-C) submission to the UN High Level Panel reviewing peace operations (2015). His latest book is, Developing a United Nations Emergency Peace Service: Meeting Our Responsibilities to Prevent and Protect (Palgrave, 2016). His recent focus is on developing the case and plans for a global peace system that develops the concept of sustainable common security. In 2008, Peter received the Hanna Newcombe Life-Time Achievement Award for his numerous contributions in support of more effective UN peace operations. He has been the recipient of a Human Security Fellowship, a SSHRCC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and he was nominated by Sir Brian Urquhart for the Pearson Peace Prize. He serves on the advisory board of the WFM-C, the Rideau Institute, and as a member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. H. Peter Langille can be reached at: [email protected].

Lanteigne, Vanessa

Ms. Lanteigne (BA, University of Victoria) is the National Coordinator at Canadian Voice of Women for Peace in Toronto who initiated the first Innovation Fund to give entrepreneurs’ seed capital. Vanessa Lanteigne can be reached at: [email protected].

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Legassic, Dodie

Ms. LeGassick is a retired secondary school teacher who has been interested in the nuclear waste issue in Northwestern Ontario since the late seventies. She is presently the Nuclear Lead for Environment North and a member of We, the Nuclear Free North. Dodie Legasick can be reached at [email protected].

Lemieux, Sylvie

Sylvie Lemieux holds a Ph.D in Conflict Studies from St. Paul University, Ottawa; a MA in globalization and international development from the University of Ottawa; and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Ecole polytechnique de Montreal - Université de Montreal. A retired Lieutenant-Colonel from the Canadian Armed Forces (Army) and former civil servant, she was a leadership candidate for the Green Party in 2010. She is the co-chair with Robin Collins of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons; a Board member of the G78, a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, a member of the Voice of Women, and a member of Integrative Peacebuilding. She has been a Member-at-Large for the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA) since 2015. Sylvie Lemieux can be reached at: [email protected].

Lepp, Eric

Dr. Lepp is a peace scholar whose research explores spaces of contact and the construction of community that includes the ‘other’ in conflict-affected societies. He is particularly interested in the counter-cultural, resistant, and unexpected spaces where peace is being enacted and imagined against a backdrop of division. Eric completed his PhD at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at University of Manchester (UK) in 2018 and is now Visiting Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Waterloo. Eric Lepp can be reached at: [email protected].

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Lorincz, Tamara

Ms. Lorincz (MA, LLB) is a PhD Candidate, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. Tamara Lorincz is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School for International Affairs (Wilfrid Laurier University). Tamara graduated with an MA in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom in 2015. She was awarded the Rotary International World Peace Fellowship and was a senior researcher for the International Peace Bureau in Switzerland. Tamara is a member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She is currently on the international board of Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space. Tamara was a co-founding member of the Vancouver Island Peace and Disarmament Network (now World Beyond War-Victoria). Tamara has an LLB/JD and MBA specializing in environmental law and management from Dalhousie University. She is the former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and co-founder of the East Coast Environmental Law Association.

Manion, Kathleen

Kathleen Manion, Associate Professor, Royal Roads University and Program Head, BA in Justice Studies. Manion is an educator and researcher who has spent the past 20 years working within social and community services. She is passionate about social justice and social inclusion and particularly interested in helping to bridge the gap between practitioner experiential knowledge, academic theory and policy objectives across multiple disciplines. Manion has worked on projects tackling issues related to child protection, homelessness, healthy early childhood development, environmental protection, family violence, youth justice, and international social work. Before joining Royal Roads in 2013, Manion’s diverse experience included research and practice in various countries and settings, working at both a national ministerial level and also at the grassroots. Manion completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo (BA in psychology, diploma in peace and conflict studies and certificate in social work). She earned her master’s (international social work and community development studies) and her PhD in sociology from the University of East London in the UK. Manion's doctoral studies focused on the perceptions of success of interventions with commercially sexually exploited girls in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. Kathleen Manion can be reached at: [email protected].

Marijan, Branka

Dr. Branka Marijan leads the research at Project Ploughshares on the military and security implications of emerging technologies. Her work examines ethical concerns regarding the development of autonomous weapons systems and the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on security provision and trends in warfare. She holds a PhD from the Balsillie School of International Affairs with a specialization in conflict and security. She has conducted research on post- conflict societies and published academic articles and reports on the impacts of conflict on civilians and diverse issues of security governance, including security sector reform. Branka Marijan can be reached at: [email protected].

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Maure, Ben

Ben (Benoit) Maure is a serving Peace Officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He has over 32 years of police experience, most of which has been spent in British Columbia. In 1999, Ben completed a one-year secondment tour of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Between 2009 and 2013, Ben acted as a Police Liaison Officer (First Secretary) at the Embassy of Canada in the Dominican Republic. He is fluent in French, English and Spanish and as a command of the German language. Ben holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and a Master of Arts degree in Social Justice from the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV). He is passioned about peace studies and international policing. Ben is also a recipient of the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Cross (M.S.C.). Ben is the author of a recently published book on Canadian Police Peacekeeping titled: Leading at the Edge. Ben Maure can be reached at: [email protected].

Mohammed, Lamis

Ms. Mohammed is an undergraduate student at the University of Western Ontario who intends to undertake a MA in 2022. Lamis Mohammed can be reached at: [email protected].

Meyer, Paul

Paul Meyer on “Nuclear Disarmament and the Nuclear Ban Treaty” Ambassador Meyer is adjunct professor of International Studies and fellow in International Security at Simon Fraser University and is the chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group. He was a career diplomat in Canada’s Foreign Service with a focus on international security policy, including serving as Canada’s ambassador to the UN and the Conference in Disarmament in Geneva (2003-07). Ambassador Meyer is adjunct professor of International Studies and fellow in International Security at Simon Fraser University and is the chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group. He was a career diplomat in Canada’s Foreign Service with a focus on international security policy, including serving as Canada’s ambassador to the UN and the Conference in Disarmament in Geneva (2003-07). Paul Meyer can be reached at: [email protected].

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Naimpoor, Sakhi

Dr. Sakhi Naimpoor is the Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Defence in Afghanistan. He graduated with his PhD from the political science department at Western University under the supervision of Prof. Erika Simpson. He specializes in international security policy and NATO-led capacity-building initiatives. He is a registered business executive member of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Sakhi Naimpoor can be reached by telephone in Afghanistan and perhaps at: [email protected].

Nimigan, Sarah

Ms. Nimigan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario with specialization in Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. She holds an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law and a Master of Arts in Political Science. Sarah Nimigan can be reached at: [email protected].

Noll, W.J. Bill

Bill Noll is a retired executive engineer from a number of communication companies in Canada and the USA who now lives in Teeswater, Ontario, a South Bruce community that is one of two potential homes for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) proposed high-level nuclear spent fuel Deep Geologic Repository (DGR). In Feb 2020, a group of residents opposed to the concept of a DGR formed an organization called Protect our Waterways No Nuclear Waste. Bill Noll l is the Vice President and they are taking on the NWMO and local council. The South Bruce community is a distressed area with a decreasing population, empty store fronts and local town councilors that believe they have ‘stuck gold’ with a the NWMO proposal so money is flowing freely from the NWMO to the community and the administration of South Bruce in an effort to win support and convince residents to become a willing host community. However, the residents of the community were never asked whether they are interested in changing from a farming community to a mining community and whether they agree to become the high- level nuclear waste site for Canada. Bill Noll can be reached at: [email protected].

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O’Connor, Rory

Rory O’Connor is an Executive Federal Public Servant in Residence at York University and formerly the Director, Strategic Planning and Analysis: Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Maghreb-Development; CIDA Director, Ministerial Services, and First Secretary-Development, Embassy of Canada, Afghanistan. Mr. O’Connor joined Indigenous Services Canada as Associate Regional Director General, Atlantic Region in 2015. Prior to this, he was Director of West Bank and Gaza Development (Global Affairs Canada), Director of Strategic Planning and Operations Development for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Maghreb (Global Affairs Canada), and Director of Ministerial Services (Canadian International Development Agency). He has also worked for the Treasury Board Secretariat, Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, and Veterans Affairs. During this time, he has worked in regions, headquarters, and overseas, in policy, programming, and corporate service functions. Prior to joining government, he worked with the United Nations Association in Canada. Rory graduated from the University of Prince Edward Island with a BA in Political Studies, minoring in Economics and Philosophy, and a Public Administration Diploma. He obtained a MA in Political Studies from the University of Western Ontario and pursued Doctoral studies in International Relations and Public Policy part-time at Carleton University, completing his comprehensive exams before being posted to Afghanistan as First Secretary, Development. Rory O’Connor can be reached at [email protected].

Peachey, Dean

Dr. Dean Peachey is former executive director of UWinnipeg’s Global College, and served as coordinator of the Human Rights Program, and as a member of the committee administering the Joint Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies delivered by UWinnipeg and the University of Manitoba. Dean Peachey can be reached at: [email protected].

Pearson, Frederic S.

Dr. Frederic S. Pearson is Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan and taught at the University of Missouri in St. Louis for twenty years, after completing his undergraduate work at Oakland University. He is a recognized authority in the fields of international military intervention, arms transfer effects on wars, and civil and international conflict analysis. He has been a senior Fulbright research professor twice, in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and he was recognized at Wayne State University as Gershenson Distinguished Research Professor, and as Graduate Mentor of the Year. Among his six sole-authored and co-authored books are Arms and Warfare: Escalation, De-escalation, Negotiation (1994 with Michael Brzoska); The Global Spread of Arms: Political Economy of International Security (1994); Arms and Ethnic Warfare (2001 with John Sislin); Civil Wars: Internal Struggles, Global Consequences (2008 with Marie Olson Lounsbery); and Arab Approaches to

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Conflict Resolution: Mediation, Negotiation and the Settlement of Political Disputes (2017 with Nahla Yassine- Hamdan). He was editor for the special 2001 issue of the Journal of Peace Research on “Identity-based Disputes and Conflict Management.” Other relevant articles include a study of mediator effectiveness in ending civil wars in the Conflict Quarterly and “Arms Trade: Economics of” in the Encyclopaedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (with Sislin and Olson). In 2000 Dr. Pearson was designated a conflict resolution consultant to the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century in Washington. He has lectured to United Nations staff on global conflict; European Union seminars on arms and civil war; and presented a peacemaking workshop to joint Palestinian-Israeli trauma treatment professionals in Jerusalem. He developed community dispute resolution programs regarding ethnic and immigrant relations; led delegations of Detroit urban high school teachers to Japan; and international conflict delegations to the former Soviet Union. With U.S. federal grants he has twice hosted Middle East Partnership Initiative students from across the Arab world in civic engagement training. He has directed the Detroit Council for World Affairs; he is past president of the Rotary Club of Detroit; and he serves on the Advisory Board of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights. Frederic Pearson can be reached at: [email protected].

Poellet, Michael

Dr. Michael Poellet is the President of the Saskatchewan Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Cooperative. Michael Poellet can be reached at: [email protected].

Quinn, Joanna R.

Dr. Joanna R. Quinn is President of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. She is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at Western University, where she is cross- appointed to the Faculty of Law and affiliate-appointed to the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research. Dr. Quinn’s research considers the role of acknowledgement, or the recognition of past events, in overcoming the effects of human rights abuses after conflict. She is interested in its potential to affect real and lasting change. She has written widely on the role of acknowledgment in truth commissions and in customary law in Uganda, Haiti, Canada, Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Canada. Her current project considers how to flip the switch to make people care about what has taken place in post-conflict societies. She holds a PhD from McMaster University, a Master’s from Acadia University, and a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Quinn also serves as the General Secretary of the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA). Joanna Quinn can be reached at: [email protected].

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Raymond, Mark

Dr. Mark Raymond is the Wick Cary Assistant Professor of International Security and Director of the Cyber Governance and Policy Center at the University of Oklahoma. He is a Carnegie Fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University; an External Affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University; and a Fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology. He is the author of Social Practices of Rule- Making in World Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). His work appears in various academic journals including International Theory, Strategic Studies Quarterly, The Cyber Defense Review, the UC Davis Law Review, and the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. He is also the co-editor of Organized Chaos: Reimagining the Internet (Waterloo, Canada: CIGI, 2014). He has testified before the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development and participated in the Internet Governance Forum. His current research projects examine the politics of global rule-making, as well as Internet governance and cybersecurity governance. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto. Mark Raymond can be reached at: [email protected].

Roberts, Guy B.

The Honorable Guy B. Roberts joined the Department of Defense as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs (ASD(NCB)) on November 30, 2017. As the ASD(NCB), Mr. Roberts was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics for matters concerning nuclear, chemical, and biological defense programs. Mr. Roberts led the enterprise responsible for ensuring the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent is safe, secure and effective; developing and sustaining capabilities to counter improvised and weapons of mass destruction threats, effects, and proliferation; and ensuring DoD compliance with nuclear, chemical, and biological treaties and agreements. Prior to joining the Trump Administration, Mr. Roberts led a distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps as an infantry officer, judge advocate, and staff officer. He went on to serve as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Policy for the Department of Defense, and then as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy and Director for Nuclear Deterrence Policy before becoming an independent consultant and adjunct professor. Mr. Roberts earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science from Arizona State University, a law degree from the University of Denver, and he holds masters’ degrees in international and comparative law from Georgetown University, in international relations from the University of Southern California, and in strategic studies from the Naval War College where he graduated with highest distinction and won the Stephen B. Luce Award for academic achievement. He is admitted to practice in Colorado, California, Arizona, and before the Military Court of Criminal Appeals and the US Supreme Court, and he is a member of the International Law of War Society.

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Roche, Douglas

Ambassador Douglas Roche, O.C. is an author, parliamentarian, and diplomat who has specialized throughout his career in peace and human security issues. The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., is an author, parliamentarian and diplomat, who has specialized throughout his 40-year public career in peace and human security issues. He lectures widely on peace and nuclear disarmament themes. Mr. Roche was a Senator, Member of Parliament, Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament, and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta. He was elected Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee at the 43rd General Assembly in 1988. The author of 2 books, his latest will be discussed in this special session. Others include The United Nations in the 21st Century (Lorimer, 2015). His memoirs, Creative Dissent: A Politician's Struggle for Peace was published by Novalis in 2008. A previous book, The Human Right to Peace (Novalis, 2003), was the Canadian Book Review Annual Editor's Choice scholarly selection for July-August 2005. He has contributed chapters to 20 additional books. Mr. Roche holds nine honourary doctorates from Canadian and American universities and has received numerous awards for his work for peace and non-violence, including the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation for World Peace Award (Canada) and the United Nations Association's Medal of Honour. In 1995, Pope John Paul II presented him with the Papal Medal for his service as Special Adviser on disarmament and security matters, and in 1998 the Holy See named him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He received the 2003 Peace Award of the Canadian Islamic Congress and the 2005 Luminosa Award for Unity from the Focolare Movement, North America. In 2005, he was given Lifetime Achievement awards from both the Canadian Pugwash Group and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. In 2009, he received the Distinguished Service Award of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians for his "promotion of human welfare, human rights and parliamentary democracy in Canada and abroad." In 2018, he was recognized by the International Peace Bureau as one of three recipients of the Seán MacBride Peace Prize. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Simpson, Erika

Dr. Erika Simpson (PhD and MA, University of Toronto) is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Western University, London, Canada and the President of the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA). Her research interests are in international security and North American foreign and defence policy, particularly arms control, disarmament, nuclear proliferation, nuclear waste, and peacekeeping. She is the author of NATO and the Bomb (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001) and her articles have appeared in leading journals including International Journal; In Victus Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice; Peace Magazine; Peace Research; Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice; and Policy Options. She is a national syndicated columnist for the Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest digital and newspaper chain, and a frequent commentator on Canada’s CTV Television News. She serves as a Director on the Board of the Canadian Pugwash Group; a Senior Advisor for the Rideau Institute; an invited Consultant for the Nuclear Abolition Forum; and a Peer Reviewer for the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health. Formerly she was an Alton Jones Fellow; a Barton Fellow; a Liu Institute Visiting Fellow; a NATO Research Fellow; and the Treasurer and Vice-Chair of the Canadian Pugwash Group. In 2015 the Voice of Women – Canada awarded her the ‘Shirley Farlinger Lifetime Achievement Award for Peace Writings.’ Erika Simpson can be reached at: [email protected].

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Simpson, Michael

Michael Simpson is the Executive Director of the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC). Prior to working for BCCIC, Michael was the Executive Director of One Sky – The Canadian Institute for Sustainable Living. His work with One Sky varied from leading major bilateral projects in West Africa including Nigeria and Sierra Leone to working in Latin America on projects ranging from forest conservation to leadership development. Simpson was an active voice for Canadian civil society at international forums ranging from the World Summit on Sustainable Development to UN meetings on renewable energy. Mike Simpson can be reached at: [email protected].

Spencer, Metta

Dr. Metta Spencer has interviewed dozens of peace activists, educators, and academics on her television and Youtube channel “Talk about Saving the World.” The show is part of the “How to Save the World in a Hurry” project. After completing a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1969 at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Spencer joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto’s Erindale College in 1971. She taught regularly in the university’s Peace and Conflict Studies Program, which she founded in 1989 and coordinated until her retirement in 1997In 1976 Spencer authored the Foundations of Modern Sociology textbook, which was subsequently published in four American and seven Canadian editions. Dr. Spencer specialized in peace and war studies, and has been active in the Canadian peace movement. As the founding president and director of the Canadian Disarmament Information Service (CANDIS), she published the monthly Peace Calendar from 1983 to 1985, when the publication changed to magazine format and took the name Peace Magazine. She has extensively researched peace and conflict. In 2011, she published The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, the culmination of 28 years of research and hundreds of interviews with Russian politicians and activists. She argues that Western peace activists' influence on Russians including Gorbachev helped end the Cold War more so than pressure from the US or NATO, More recently, Spencer has become involved in climate change activism (by chairing since 2007 a Science for Peace committee to study and campaign for carbon taxation policy) and has researched edutainment, or social change through storytelling. In her book Two Aspirins and a Comedy: How Television Can Enhance Health and Society (2006), she argues that television could be a force for health and social change. Metta Spencer can be reached at: [email protected].

Squires, Erinn C.

Erinn C. Squires is a Defence Scientist in the Canadian Department of National Defence and works in the Directorate of Research Operational and Organizational Dynamics within the Director General Military Personnel Research and Analysis division. Prior to joining the Department of National Defence, Erinn completed her PhD in Experimental Social Psychology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her primary research currently focuses on risk factors for ethical and unethical behaviour in the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Standish, Katerina

Dr. Katerina Standish is the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr Standish is an expert on culture and violence and specialises in curricular analysis. Her publications include content on gender, conflict and cultural learning, as well as alternative education (peace education and decolonizing education), violence and self-harm in Indigenous and Non- Indigenous culture, and practical violence transformation. She has published five books and many refereed articles including most recently, Suicide Through a Peacebuilding lens: Medical and Instrumental Suicide (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). She holds a doctoral degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba, a Master's Degree in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University, a post-baccalaureate in Communications from Simon Fraser University and an undergraduate degree in Sociology, Anthropology and Humanities from Simon Fraser University. Dr Standish is a specialist in transformative education, the creator of Yogic Peace Education and the inventor and primary researcher for the Peace Education Curriculum Analysis (PECA) (pecaproject.org). Her peace practices include working in partnership with local communities in Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has experience in peacebuilding in Uganda, Palestine, Israel and with the Red Cross in Canada and New Zealand. She has been a Yoga, breath and meditation instructor for 15 years. Katerina Standish can be reached at: [email protected].

Staples, Steven

Steven Staples is the chairperson of Peace Quest and an accomplished policy and research strategist, published author, and award-winning peace and social justice advocate with over 25 years of experience in community organizations and the labour movement. As a communications and policy advocate, he has worked with a wide range of leaders including Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, former U.S. Senator Tom Hayden, Senator Roméo Dallaire, Council of Canadians Chairperson Maude Barlow, Unifor President Jerry Dias, and Ontario Federation of Labour President Sid Ryan. Steven Staples is the owner of Public Response, a digital agency that services non-profit organizations and trade unions in the fields of online engagement and government relations. He is the founder of the Rideau Institute, a non-profit, independent research, advocacy and consulting group based in Ottawa. It specializes in defence and foreign affairs policy. Its public engagement and advocacy arm is Ceasefire.ca. Steven Staples is a Board Member of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Peace Bureau, the world's oldest and largest peace network. He is also serving his third consecutive term on the Members' Council of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. In 2018, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Council of Canadians, the country's largest social justice organization. Steven Staples can be reached at: [email protected].

Tanguay, Eric

Mr. Tanguay is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, specializing in conflict and security. His primary research interests include post-conflict peace processes, the role of traditional and religious institutions in African security governance, and the protection of civilians in peacekeeping operations. Eric Tanguay can be reached at: [email protected].

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Teeple, Nancy

Dr. Nancy Teeple is an adjunct assistant professor and research associate at the Department of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). Nancy’s research areas include nuclear strategy and deterrence, nuclear non-proliferation and arms control, and Arctic security. Notable publications include: “A Brief History of Intrusions into the Canadian Arctic,” Canadian Army Journal (2010); (with Stuart Farson) “Increasing Canada’s Foreign Intelligence Capability: Is it a Dead Issue?” Intelligence and National Security (2015); “A Minimum Deterrence Nuclear Posture and the Challenge of Deterrence Failure,” On Track (2015/2016); and contribution to the Simons Forum Report “Repairing the US-NATO-Russia Relationship and Reducing the Risks of the Use of Nuclear Weapons,” in 2018. Nancy’s current work focusses on the impact of new weapons technologies and missile defence systems on strategic stability among competitor states. Nancy holds a PhD in Political Science from Simon Fraser University (SFU), an MA in War Studies from RMC, a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Western Ontario, an MA in Ancient Studies from the University of Toronto, and a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies from the University of Ottawa. Nancy is an Arctic security researcher for the Canada-Russia Research Initiative (https://thecrri.ca) and is the incoming Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Peace and War Studies at Norwich University in January 2020. Nancy Teeple can be reached at: [email protected].

Venton, Anne

Anne Venton earned a MA (University of Toronto) and was a Media Studies educator with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). She also served as Head of Library at Northern Secondary School, North Toronto Collegiate, and City Adult Learning Centre. She was a Project Director at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) on projects including the ‘Canadian English Language Achievement Test’ and ‘Sex Stereotyping in Elementary Readers’. With extensive experience on many boards, Ms. Venton served on boards for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada; the Council of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario; the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance; and the College of Dental Hygienists of Ontario. She was the Riding President of the Toronto Centre Federal Liberal Association (TCFLA) and President of the Ontario Women's Liberal Commission (OWLC). Currently, she is a VP Community Outreach for TCFLA and she serves on the executive of C-CAVE (Canadians Concerned About Violence in Entertainment) as Director of Communications. She is also the Vice-President of the OISE Alumni Association, which represents one of the largest faculties at the University of Toronto with over 70,000 graduates. Anne Venton can be reached at: [email protected].

Venton, Peter

Peter Venton is the Treasurer of the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA) (2015-17, 2017-19). He was the Bursar, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Toronto (2001-2009). The modern equivalent of Bursar is Vice President: Administration and Finance, which includes oversight management of Human Resources administration and management’s representative in labor negotiations, as well as oversight management of the University’s physical plant. He is also the former Vice President: Administration and Finance, Wilfrid Laurier University, (1979-1984). Formerly he was an economist and senior policy advisor in the Ontario Government's Ministry of Finance. He holds a MA in Economics from Queen’s University. Venton is currently the President of JPV Associates consulting in economics and public policy in the public interest and public sector management. He has presented papers on economic inequality, environmental sustainability, democracy, globalization and capitalism in Canada, Greece and Taiwan. His

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Ware, Alyn

Alyn Ware is a New Zealand peace educator and campaigner in the areas of peace, non-violence, nuclear abolition, international law, women's rights, children's rights and the Co-Founder and International Co-ordinator of the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) and the Vice President of the International Peace Bureau Consultant for the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA). He is a board member and advisor to a number of international organisations including Abolition 2000, Middle Powers Initiative, Peace Boat, Mayors for Peace and the Global Campaign for Peace Education. Alyn Ware can be reached at: [email protected].

Werner, Karolina

Dr. Karolina Werner is a NEST Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at the University of Western Ontario and Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. Karolina Werner can be reached at: [email protected].

Wilmer, Franke

Dr. Franke Wilmer is a Professor, International Relations, Montana State University who specializes in conflict and conflict resolution, international law, public policy, international relations and foreign policy. Dr. Wilmer served four terms in the Montana legislature. She was elected by colleagues from both parties to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore in 2009, chaired the interim committee on State Administration and Veterans' Affairs in 2007-2009, served on House Education; Fish Wildlife and Parks; and State Administration and Veterans' Affairs committees. She received two awards from veteran’s groups for legislative work including Legislator of the Year from the Vietnam Veterans of American Montana Council in 2011. She served on the Council of the American Political Science Association and the Editorial Board of the International Studies Quarterly. She has travelled to over 50 countries as a guest lecturer or researcher, including six times to the former Yugoslavia during wartime. Franke Wilmer can be reached at: [email protected].

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